Marxist Voice

We publish here a report and recording of a debate – hosted by the Sussex Marxist society – on “The Great Recession of 2008: what happened and what can we do now?” Participating in the debate were Adam Booth – editor of www.socialist.net – and Professor Frank Brouwer from the Department of Economics at the University of Sussex.

Tony Benn, who sadly passed away on 14th March 2014, was a supporter and defender of the Bolivarian revolution from the very beginning. He collaborated with the Hands off Venezuela campaign and spoke on our platform on several occasions. We publish here an audio recording of what he said at the First National Conference of the Hands Off Venezuela Campaign in December 2005.

To celebrate International Women’s Day – 8th March – we publish this recording of Sofia Zaitseva, speaking at the Bristol Marxist Society, who provides a Marxist analysis of the origins of women’s oppression and the fight for women’s liberation in society today.

We publish here recordings and a report of a recent debate at the Cambridge Marxist Society, where Adam Booth, editor of www.socialist.net, Jon Lansman, editor of Left Futures, and Matthew Doyle, former political director to Tony Blair, discuss the future of the Labour Party.

In this talk from last year’s Marxist Winter School, “Marx was Right!”, Alan Woods – author of “Bolshevism: the Road to Revolution” and editor of www.marxist.com – discusses the Russian Revolution of 1917 and defends the October Revolution, led by Lenin, Trotsky, and the Bolsheviks, against the lies and slanders of the modern day bourgeois historians.

In this talk from the Marxist Winter School 2013, John Pickard – former editor of the Militant newspaper and author of “Behind the Myths: the Foundations of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam” – discusses the Marxist view of history, based on the dialectical and materialist philosophy of Marxism.

Alan Woods – editor of In Defence of Marxism and author of “Reformism or Revolution” – speaks at the UCLU Marxist society, where he provides a Marxist analysis of World War One and discusses the possibility of world war today.

Rob Sewell – editor of Socialist Appeal and author of “In the Cause of Labour” – looks back at the Great Crash of 1929, which marked the beginning of the Great Depression, and asks what lessons we can learn today in terms of looking at the current crisis of capitalism.

Daniel Morley of the Socialist Appeal Editorial Board discusses the philosophy of dialectics, which looks at the laws of change in nature, society, and thought, and contrasts the dialectical philosophies of Marx and Hegel. 

In this talk hosted by the UCLU Marxist Society, Fred Weston – editor of www.marxist.com, discusses the ideas, life, and legacy of Nelson Mandela, analysing the history of South Africa and Apartheid, and outlining the perspectives for class struggle in the country today.

In this recording from the IMT Winter School 2013 “Marx was right!”, Marie Frederiksen of the Danish Marxist paper Socialistisk Standpunkt discusses the questions of women’s oppression and liberation, and provides a Marxist analyses of the women’s question and the feminist movement.